Deepak Chopra famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."
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Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.
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If you take the the insults of your fellow human beings personally, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
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I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.
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Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.
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Whatever you are passionate about, there is some skill associated with it and there's some service associated with it. Go for it, and don't worry about the money all the time.
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The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.
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I can give you high blood pressure just on the phone by criticizing you. On the other hand, I can send a tweet to somebody in China and give them a dopamine hit.
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Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.
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The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.
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The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.
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Aromatherapy is extremely useful. If you want to go to sleep at night, and you have an aroma that calms your mind, it will help you sleep.
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You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
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Lords of immortality will always fail in the material world.
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Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
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I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity.
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If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
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It's your choice, what you do with the moment. If you're stuck in a traffic jam, you can get angry and honk your horn, or listen to Mozart. But when you have a very specific expectation of how things should be, then, of course, you end up hurting yourself.
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Negative people deplete your energy. Surround yourself with love and nourishment and do not allow the creation of negativity in your environment.
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People think meditation is a huge undertaking.
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Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
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The people who do the most extraordinary things in the world are never "realistic." They're passionate. They trust themselves.
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Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.
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There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
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When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
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I think if we can be totally nonviolent within our own self, because we are part of the web of life, we will restore cosmic harmony.
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Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.
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If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.
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If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.
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When you do not have the basic requirements for survival and safety and belongingness and where there are huge inequities then fear turns into hatred.
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According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
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I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
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Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
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We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.
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Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
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Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.
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The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.
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Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.
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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
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My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.
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Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.
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Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.
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When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.
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It is important for everyone to keep in close contact and preferably be in physical proximity with their loved ones.
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If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.
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Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.
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If love is universal, no one can be left out.
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In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
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Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.
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If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.
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If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.
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Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.
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We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance.
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We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.
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Evil is a superficial manifestation of a deep disturbance and imbalance in our collective psyche. The only way for us to help heal the wounds is to be sober, sane, quiet, loving, and attentive to each other.
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When you make a choice, you change the future.
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Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.
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In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
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I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of tribalism and I think what we call "Democracy" will be "Netocracy", where people, globally, can work on issues.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.
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You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
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I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.
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You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
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And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.
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We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.
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I create my success from within
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Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.
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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
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Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given.
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When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.
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I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
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The fastest way to your own happiness is to make another happy.
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When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
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The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you'll see there's a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.
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When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint.
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Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.
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Life is a field of unlimited possibilities.
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Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
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Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.
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Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.
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In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself
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A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. To begin with, the very word "risk" implies worry, and people who worry about every bite of food, sip of water, the air they breathe, the gym sessions they have missed, and the minutiae of vitamin doses are not sending positive signals to their cells. A stressful day sends constant negative messaging to the feedback loop and popping a vitamin pill or choosing whole wheat bread instead of white bread does close to zero to change that.
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Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
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If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.
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The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.
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The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
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When you struggle against this moment, you're actually struggling against the entire universe. Instead, you can make the decision that today you will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
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This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
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Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.
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It takes as little as 1% of a population to create positive change, and I believe that if 100 million people underwent a personal transformation in the direction of peace, harmony, laughter, love, kindness, and joy...the world would be transformed.
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Loving another person is not separate from loving God. One is a single wave, the other is the ocean.
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Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.
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There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.
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To change the printout of the body, you must learn to rewrite the software of the mind.
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Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.
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